On Wed, 2008-02-07 at 11:53 +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > See: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Abaci > > Can't remember where I (or possibly) someone else got that from.
I suspect it is a quote from some professor's course notes. It is not an unreasonable inference but any good mathematician should be familiar with at least some of the the first wikipedia page. I looked at the second page because I thought it might validate the statement on the perl6 wiki but it really doesn't. > > You (or anyone else) can use openid, or get a socialtext account > trivially - failing that I know. > reply to this thread with copy for a better page Sorry, I really don't have time. I would just add the wikipedia reference to the page and delete the offending statement. It could be replaced with note on Fibonacci, Liber Abaci, the date when Fib. was active and a reference to the Hindu origins (which I was unaware of and found really interesting ... so thanks [to whoever is responsible] for the original statement or I wouldn't have looked ;-). -- --gh
